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Suddenly, however, it all stopped. After leaving the New York Mets for the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 1990 season, drug and alcohol addiction killed Strawberry's career. He enjoyed a resurgence as a role player with the great New York Yankees teams of the late-1990s. But even that ride ended badly, with Strawberry in jail for using drugs once again. Now the ex-Rookie of the Year offers a raw, honest portrayal of his story in a new autobiography, Straw: Finding My Way. The book comes out April 28th: Strawberry talked to Time's Sean Gregory about abuse...
...left the New York Mets after the 1990 season as a free agent, and signed with your hometown Los Angeles Dodgers. How did that decision impact your career? It was nightmare. I was accustomed to the atmosphere in New York. I was accustomed to playing under the pressure. I was accustomed to people yelling and booing when you weren't playing well. I thought it would be great to go home to California. It's baseball, but it's not intensity baseball. It's more laid back. The fans come late and leave early. I was like...
...mystery that the 1986 New York Mets were a wild bunch. "When the Mets came to your town it was like Mardi Gras," you write. "The clubs would be packed, waiting for us to roll in. Guys wanted to get next to us and buy us drinks or take us into the men's room and lay out a few rails of coke . . .The only hard part for us was choosing which hottie to take back to your hotel room." You include a couple of anecdotes about your own sexual trysts. Why share that detail? Because it's the truth...
...three world championships with the New York Yankees. What do you say to the fans in, say, Kansas City and Pittsburgh, who see the Yankees as an "Evil Empire" because of all the money they can spend on players? They can think what they want. We want to win in New York. You represent New York when you put on the uniform, either the Yankees uniform or the Met uniform. There are a lot of people in New York that have to suffer and stress through life. It's a difficult place, and they deserve the best. They...
...pitchers in today's game, who would be the toughest for you to face? Johan Santana [of the New York Mets] would be one of them. He's phenomenal. He reminds me so much of what Doc Gooden once was. You give him runs early enough, he's going to win that ballgame. Doc Gooden was the same way. You give him three runs early, you can close the door...